To those that emulate, how do you ever decide what to play in an age where every single game ever released is ready to boot up at the touch of your finger tips
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To those that emulate, how do you ever decide what to play in an age where every single game ever released is ready to boot up at the touch of your fi...
>pick a series i like or that i figure i'll like
>see if i have to play the games in order if it's a more story oriented series
>play the first one if so, if not then pick one that stands out
>google.com: "50 best games for X"
>pick one
>be me
>play game for 10 minutes
>get bored
>choose another game
>play game for 10 minutes
>get bored
>choose another game
>play game for 10 minutes
>get bored
>go back to first game
>play for 20 minutes
>quit retroarch
>go to /vr/ and shitpost
This is basically the reason why zoomers, and their miniscule attention spans, find themselves bored with gaming. Too much content out there, and there is always a sense of FOMO if you have too much to choose from.
>pick console
>pick genre
>find list of games in genre on console
>skim longplays of those games to see what looks fun
never ever download romsets, just choose 1 or 2 games at a time and play them until you beat them or get bored. A lot of people can't handle having thousands of games for free at the click of a button, there's just no value to them at that point
you can have romsets, but treat them as an archival backup thing and stick them on a drive somewhere. copy a few roms out at a time but do not work "live" out of the romset or you will be overwhelmed
>A lot of people can't handle having thousands of games for free at the click of a button, there's just no value to them at that point
This is also why chad treats women like they have no value. Chad has all the women and can just play them whenever he wants. Does this mean people who download rom sets are retro chads ?
How does this fit into the chad/rom storyline ? Is keeping roms archived for later like some kind of bdsm chad that has a dungeon full of women ? I wouldn't mind a rom dungeon tbh
I don't look at "must-play" lists. I strictly only play what interests me.
I don't think of a game I want to play when I want to emulate. I emulate when there's a specific game I want to play.
Emulation is a means to an end.
When in doubt, go alphabetical.
I usually pick a console, browse through genres, then look for games that have cool screenshots.
>tfw discovering emulation
At that point you just look at whatever title exists in a platform and play anything that looks good, you can then try games you want to but didn't have the console/money/w.e..
After a while you're stuck looking for niche titles, better emulators or replaying what you like.
Very simple:
https://wheelofnames.com/
You'd have to put every single game on that wheel and then spin it. That would take too long, even if you narrowed it down to a specific system.
By playing whatever I feel like. Duh.
>have games I'd like to play, pick one
>have series I'd like to play, pick one
>have the option to random pick something for most systems when I want to do something entirely different, click button a few times
It just works.
it depends on my mood
Like with anything involving a surfeit of choices like music, movies, books, etc, passion is my guide. When a game shows up in my mind and I feel that pull of passion where I'm curious and want to think about it deeply, that's enough for me to go for it. Once I'm committed to a game, I keep playing it until I either finish it or feel that my passion is gone for it, and I move on to something else. In the event that I have multiple games that induce that passion and I can't reasonably juggle them, then by definition there's no bad choice, so I just pick at random.
I think if you really can't handle having the world at your fingertips, then you either have problems knowing how to do research to find something that interests you, or you have a more fundamental problem of not truly understanding yourself, particularly with knowing what excites you enough to pursue it.
I like to group things up by year or genre or just series so I can compare them all. Like I'll make a list of shmups from a year or comparable JRPGs for a console to see how devs approached things.
You sir have a brain the size of a truck
I have full ROM sets for 53 different systems, all neatly contained in their own playlists. Sometimes I'll just pick a game at random but most times I won't even start up RA unless I already know what I'm going to play.
>To those that eat food, how do you ever decide what to eat in an age where every single food ever released is ready to buy at the touch of your finger tips
Awful analogy
>food analogy
This is more of a struggle for me than picking which game to play tbh.
you have to pay for food
Sounds like OP has a solution to his problem then
Launchbox has a random game button
Actually good q anon. I usually just go by genre or things that are related to what I know. Like what is considered "classic" in my specific set of niches. Like JRPGs and simulations.
Playlist, best of X console videos, retrospectives, that one site that ranks everything
I don't download entire ROM sets. I browse around online or through old magazines until I find an interesting game. Then I virtually obtain the game including all the box art and manuals which I inspect before playing.
i look for games made by developers who made games i like
>go on retro achievements
>select random set
>randomly selects one literal thousands of retro games from 30+ consoles
*one of literal thousands
Yea, this is what I do when I can't think of something. Played a bunch of games I had never even heard of before.
I go for 1cc runs of the game is good to me. I go for score runs if it has fun scoring.
This style of play cuts out 90% of retro slop that don't focus around 1 credit runs or have shit scoring.
You're supposed to have a game in mind first and then use an emulator as a means to play it.
It's annoying when people go "I just downloaded [romset], now what do I play?" It's the backwards way to approach this.
Everytime I can't think of a genre or system I want to play I just play Super Shanghai 2 for sega genesis.